NEW YORK -- Lance Armstrong's results erased from the record books will likely include his 2006 and 2007 New York City Marathon results as well as his 2008 Boston Marathon result, according to reports.
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Hey Fast Freddie: guess what Lance Armstrong and your avatar have in common? They BOTH cheated ;-)

It says alot when the current Tour de France champion decides to support his team mate in next years competition over going for the win himself.

He's perfect for the sport, just what it needs at this time.

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Well, many many would argue that Froome was stronger than Bradley this year. If Froome was given the go ahead to ride for the win he would have done so no problem. Honestly, it was quite silly seeing Froome given the go ahead to hunt for a stage win, only to be called back because Wiggins was struggling.

Even worse, last year at the Vuelta, Team Sky put all of their eggs in the Wiggins basket basically until the final few stages. Froome had been in support of Wiggins the whole race, but when Cobo turned it on, Wiggins couldn't follow. Despite Froome even holding the leaders jersey at one point in the race, they still were going with Wiggins. Sky ended up finishing with Froome at 2nd and Wiggins 3rd instead of Froome taking the overall victory.

Bradley also said he's going to target the Giro next year. Realistically speaking, this greatly reduces his chance at winning the tour. It's a no brainer to say he'll support Froome. Froome had two amazing opportunities to win a grand tour, opportunities he might not have in the future. Bradley really owes him something.

And don't talk about him like the sport "needs" him. Seems like just a few weeks ago he was praising Lance, now he's completely changed the tune. It also doesn't help when he blasts anyone in the media referring to possible doping at Sky. That's the Lance approach...

It's sad that Lance is getting all this heat after thinking about it objectively.

Athletes have been doping in every major sport for years.

Do you think female bodybuilders get man chins from lifting weights? How do they compete in sanctioned events? Someone poast a pic to prove my point.

I'm starting to think Lance is being unfairly vilianized knowing full well there are thousands of pro NFL and MLB players that have gotten away with it for years and no one really cares.

I just LOL at Lance for denying it all these years. It's just a joke now. But it's unfair knowing its pretty rampant in all sports.

He still sorta seems slimey but something seems fishy about the while thing. I hope more whistleblowers step forward in other sports.

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The difference bewtween Lance and any regular MLB or NFL guy is that lance spent years threatinging legal action on any and all people who said anything. He strongly denied any accustation and backed it up with legal action. Im not sure of any other athelete who so aggresivly went after those that accused him.

A-Rod was all like "I'm sorry for taking them, but I was trying to heal"

Bonds was like "I never took them so take me court, its still not proven he actually did"

Clemens was like bonds, but with more first person testimony. Yet still never actually tested.

The guys that get popped now in MLB just serve the suspensions and hopefully come back.

Shawne Merriman served his 4 game suspension and won the defense MVP.

Lance threatened poeple carrers to keep the machine going and the cash flowing. He operated at a different level than anyone else (at least from what we know).

The Tour De France is a total joke. Has been ever since it started. The problem is with the difficulty of the race. Basically, in the beginning, riders doped up to ease the pain associated with doing that much cycling. Then it transformed into actually trying to go faster.

But even as recently as 2007, Contador was caught doping. I honestly think that everybody that does that race is doped to some degree.

Lance made $100 million dollars + by maintaining the fiction that he wasn't doping, while at the same time doping himself, facilitating and encouraging doping by his teammates, and intimidating journalists and fellow cyclists to prevent information on the extent of doping from emerging.

Lance made $100 million dollars + by maintaining the fiction that he wasn't doping, while at the same time doping himself, facilitating and encouraging doping by his teammates, and intimidating journalists and fellow cyclists to prevent information on the extent of doping from emerging.

Have you read the secret race all about how they injected the roids and blood transfusions. All the steroid use is there in the book. They were probably more serious or just as serious as Mark McGuire and those guy were with injecting the hormones into their bloodstreams. Lance probably would have lost without them. He did loose that one thing though.

Just thought I'd back this truck up and revisit this topic... Esp regarding the topic of Armstrong's massive PR machine which swiped and character assassinated basically anyone who dared accuse him of impropriety.

Read this article.. from paragraph 4 on this page (page 2). An sick insight into how Armstrong approached any potential criticism.

By comparison, the Michael J. Fox Foundation had similar revenue to Livestrong in 2008 - $40 million - and gave away $33 million of that in grants for Parkinson's research. That PR machine has done a good job huh!

Lance is now going to admit to doping. All of his idiot fanboys will still claim he didn't dope. SMH

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Let me guess what Lance will say.
I’m so sorry for lying and cheating to your faces all these years. I made a mistake and deserve a second chance. It’s just business nothing personal.
Despite what I’ve done I gave you something to cheer for and feel good about yourself. Didn’t I? I gave my fans and the cancer patients a ride of their life.
But hey, can we get past that now? I’m still a great sportsman and your hero, remember? Don’t forget to give your support and send more money my way. I’ll find different ways to be your hero again.

I disagree. We love our heros and dont want them to be proven as frauds. You think sportsfans dont still love Walter Payton, Dick Butkus, Earl Campbell, Joe Montana, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax and so many others. We dont like tearing them down unless they show that our rooting for them and idolizing them was a total sham.

'Tygart said Armstrong had been tipped off by Swiss drug testing laboratory director Martial Saugy about how to beat the erythropoietin (EPO) test in 2002 after one of Armstrong's samples from the 2001 Tour of Switzerland was described as "suspicious."

"Saugy sat down next to me and said, 'Travis, in fact, there were samples from Lance Armstrong that indicated EPO use'," Tygart told CBS television's 60 Minutes Sports.

"As far as we are aware, (it is) totally inappropriate to bring in an athlete who had a suspicious test and explain to them how the test works."

The Swiss lab chief also told Tygart that the International Cycling Union (UCI) had asked him to hold an unprecedented meeting with Armstrong and his former manager Johan Bruyneel to explain the EPO testing process.

Tygart said six of Armstrong's samples taken during his first Tour de France win in 1999 eventually tested positive.

The samples were originally reported as negative but they were re-tested in 2005.

Everyone is blind if they think this is an isolated incident. The Balco issue from a few years back had a client list that was hundreds of pages long may of whom were professional athletes. Most professional sports are doped, cycling is very bad. We need to find a way to limit the impact or to make it fair. Until we do, the cheaters will always be one step ahead of the testers. Personally I don't care what people take as long as the option is available to everyone competing and nothing is given to minors.

I can't see him admitting it... Appearances on Oprah are notoriously interviewee friendly to the point they will even pre-vet questions that'll be asked. I think we might see Armstrong using his interview as a re-confirmation of his steadfast denials. The legal liabilities he would open himself up for if he admitted it all would apparently be significant.